Broom.



K. MODLIN.

BROOM.

APPLIOALIION FILED SEPT. 2, 1913. 1,107,541 y Patented Aug. 18, 1914.

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KEMP MODLIN', 0F CLIO, SOUTH CBOLIN'A.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 18, 1914.

Application led September 2, 1913. Serial No. 787,767'.

To all whom 'it may concern: n Be it known that 1, KEMP MoDLIN, acitizen of the United States, residing at Clio,

in the county of Marlboro and State of South Carolina,have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Brooms; and I do hereby declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which ,itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to brooms, and one of the principal objectsthereof is to provide means for easily and quickly securing broommaterial to a broom head.

Another object of the invention is to provide a broom which will besimple, durable, inexpensive to manufacture and capable of having anybroom material easily secured to the broom head and without the use ofskilled labor or of tools. v

With these and other objects in View, the invention consists in theconstruction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter morefully described and claimed, and illustrated in theaccompanyingdrawings, in which like characters of lreference indicatelike parts throughout the several figures, and in which,

Figure 1 represents a top plan View of a broom constructed according tomy invention, a portion'of the handle being broken away, Fig. 2represents a vertical longitudinal sectional view through a broom, andFig. 3 represents a vertical, transverse, sectional view of the broom.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, the broom head 5 com risesal semicylindrical strip of metal having an opening 7, through which thevertical centrally thereof and near one end, through which an eye-bolt 6extends and having its opposite en d provided centrally with a slotportion 8 of a bent securing rod extends, the horizontal portion 9thereof having rone end provided with an eye 10 to form a pivotalconnection with the eye of the bolt 6. Bolt 6 and portion 8 of thesecuring rod both extend up wardl through broom head 5 and lare threa edon their upper ends for receiving thumb-nuts 11,-.whereby broom material12' may be secured between the securing rod and the broom head, said.material preferably being constructed of corn husks, but it is to beunderstood that other material may be used without departing from thespirit of the invention.

The diverging prongs 13 ofa steel fork pass through spaced openings nearthe inner edge of head 5, and are secured thereto by means of the innerand outer nuts 14 and 15 respectively, the body V'portion (not shown) ofthe fork being driven into the lower end of the handlev 16 of the broom,said handle being provided with a malleable metal ferrule 17 having anopening therein through which the bodyl of the fork extends, into theend of the handle,^so that a tight joint is secured.

Although l have shown 'eye-,bolt -6- `and portion 8 ofthesecuring"rodfas provided with thumb-nuts, if it is so desired, bolt 6vmay be securedvin position by means of an ordinary carriage nut.However, in either instance it is desirable to provide washers 18between the securingnuts and the head of the broom.

Should it be desirable for any reason to remove the broom material andinsert new material in its place, all that is necessary to do is toremove thumb-nut 11 and swing the securing rod on its pivot 10, wherebythe material may be disengaged and new material placed on the rod, thelatter being secured in thesmanner already described. In this connectionit will be noted that slots .7 runs from one end of'body 5 inwardly, to

same, so that nuts 14 serve the double urpose 'of securing the prongs 13of the ork and of providing means for preventing `the accidental removalofthe broom material.

It will be noted that prongs 13 and handle 16 extend at" an angle to thevertical longitudinal plane of the Ybroomhead, but the exact an 'le` at:which Kthe handle projects from 'the head may beA varied withoutdeparting from the spirit of the invention.

The eye-bolt 6 and vertical portion 8-of the securing rod are positionednear the ends of body 5 so that the Ibroom material may be embracedbetween said bolt and portion, so that said materia-1 may not be re-1.10

moved from the broom by pulling laterally ,of the same. l

Although I have described the preferred embodiment of my invention, Imay desire to make such changes in the construction, combination andarrangement of parts as do not de art from the spirit of the inventionand tlhe scope of the appended claim.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters-Patent is,

A broom comprisin a head, a securing rod pivotall connecte with one endof said head and a apted to clamp broom material against said head, ahandle, a fork secured 15 therein and having its prongs diver g andsecured to said head, nuts threadeudn the ends of said prongs orsecuring the same to said head, means for clamping said material againstsaid nuts.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

KEMP MODLIN.

Witnesses:

H. L. CUEEUN, E. C. STANTON.

